Jo Whiley - Applied Languages - And what did you do at university?

Radio 1 DJ Jo Whiley wasn’t always set for the airwaves. In the final year of
her Applied Languages degree at BrightonPolytechnic, a lecturer secured her a job at BBC Radio Sussex,
where Whiley got her first taste of music broadcast journalism.

She then went on to study the trade at City
University on a Radio Journalism course, before presenting her first
solo radio show in 1995.